Basically Law

Weak!  The Second Circuit dodged whether a Federal Sex Offender Registry is within Congress's enumerated powers under the Commerce Clause.  [Read here]

Columbia, South Carolina - South Carolina lawmakers formally rebuked Gov. Sanford for his recent antics.  [Read here]

Tallahasse, Florida - Sixty-seven lawyers petition the Florida Supreme Court to set up a commission to find ways to prevent wrongful convictions.  [Read here]

Beattyville, Kentucky - Daughters of a man who remarried his second wife while on his death bed are contesting the marriage in probate court.  Oh, the daughters are from the man's first wife.  [Read here]

Augusta, Maine - Groups spent $9.6 million on the gay marriage ballot fight this past year.  [Read here]

Ashland, Oregon - A planned ban on public nudity will not be acted on until next year as council members decide how far the ban should go.  [Read here]

Wilmington, North Carolina - Gross!  Family members kept the corpse of a deceased relative in bed for months.  [Read here]

Brussels, Belgium - EU regulators and Microsoft ended their pending antitrust disagreements as Microsoft will allow European consumers to choose other browsers than Internet Explorer.  [Read here]

Albany, New York - Governor Patterson extended anti-discrimination protection to transgendered state workers.  [Read here]

Clarksville, Tennessee - A social worker is accused of fondling a 13 year old girl.  [Read here]

Washington, D.C. - The city has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a mass arrest suit that occurred during a World Bank protest in 2002.  [Read here]

Pittsfield, Michigan - More craziness involving sex offender registration laws.  This time a 17 year old boy who was arrested for having sex with his 15 year old girldfriend is now screwed for the next 25 years.  [Read here]